The original News from Erewhon “Flash Fiction” web installation, published in the Iowa Review Web, was based on

8 sets of two texts, one in each set by each author (Niss, Deed)

Each set of text uses a list of keywords (words or phrases drawn randomly from a variety of sources) in a fixed order

There are also 7 headlines — sentences made from combining a word from each list into a sentence — which are displayed in the “Zipper” animation (see above).

The original Erewhon is presented in a Flash-based interface in which the texts are “interrupted” by related images, which can be turned off to read texts or else one can view the images alone, as a slideshow.